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Top-down syndication is broken, says Jackie Hai

By Michael Becker | Published: April 16, 2009
Jackie Hai: [T]he AP has failed to grasp is that the evo­lu­tion of the par­tic­i­pa­tory web has blurred the line between con­tent pro­duc­ers, dis­trib­u­tors and con­sumers to the point where every­body can be any and all of the three. The news wire of the future will not be cen­tral­ized and top-down, but rather dis­trib­uted and bottom-up. (via [...]
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Google as the news industry’s middle man

By Michael Becker | Published: April 12, 2009
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was sup­posed to directly con­nect peo­ple — buy­ers and sell­ers, read­ers and writ­ers, etc. — and elim­i­nate the mid­dle man. In real­ity, the mid­dle man is more impor­tant than ever, and the biggest mid­dle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
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